Monday, December 31, 2012

media

It fucking hurts looking backward.  I don't like to complete a thought about personal memories but through media it all becomes real. Even photos pale in memory compared to something like air plane trading cards. The word 'foto' itself has for me the reinforcing memory a of the press room of the Milford Citizen; the smell of a darkroom, the sound of a Linotype machine casting lead letters to print the local news.

The photos of the Color Bar don't do justice to the emotions tied to a empty can of paint from the Color Bar.

The little backyard paint store had shelves of wall paper books, paint color chips and a back room filled with extra can of wrong color mistakes. You think there was some truth to what the Dean of Fine Arts at Uconn told me, "Your head is like a carnival." And by the way, the Dean implied, please transfer to the Theatre Department.